🦬
American bison
Bison bison
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
14,751 views between them.
American bison outweighs Red deer 3.9× — 625 kg against 160 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
American bison
1.66 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Red deer
1.13 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
625 kg
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.66 m
🦬 American bison
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
Body length
2.9 m
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Top speed
52 km/h
🦬 American bison
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
Maximum lifespan
33 yr
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Pecora (infraorder), home to 586 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 16 million years ago.
Estimates range from 14 to 20 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).